TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE AND VERSE, WITH PREFACE, SPECIALINTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES

BY

A. H. LEAHY

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. I

PREFACE

At a time like the present, when in the opinion of many the greatliteratures of Greece and Rome are ceasing to hold the influence thatthey have so long exerted upon human thought, and when the study of thegreatest works of the ancient world is derided as "useless," it may betoo sanguine to hope that any attention can be paid to a literaturethat is quite as useless as the Greek; which deals with a time, which,if not actually as far removed from ours as are classical times, is yetfurther removed in ideas; a literature which is known to few and has